Chapter 427 Lars City
There is one or more ancient god's consciousness clones active in the human world. This discovery is really terrible...
Yang Qiu silently cleaned up the remaining traces of sacrifice in the cave. He used black magic to burn the site of the sacrifice while thinking and deducing in his mind.
The more he deduced, the more his head started to swell...
Walking in the human world with a slice of consciousness, intentionally interfering with the material plane, hiding and erasing all information about the original body, including the name of God - no matter how you look at it, the consciousness clone that retains rational thinking ability and does such a thing must have some purpose.
And this purpose...is not difficult to guess.
He attempted to reunite believers and reshape his godhood.
Gods who have lost their believers and divinity are exiled to the void. No matter how much the gods exiled to the void exert their influence on the material plane to gain believers, all they can get are a group of lunatics with a short "shelf life" - the more "intimate" the contact between the old gods who have sunk into the void and their believers, the faster the believers will go crazy.
The so-called "cult" is actually a way of communication and sacrifice between the evil gods and the evil gods, which has been accumulated by the believers with blood and human lives, and which maintains the maximum "safe distance" from the evil gods. It includes sacrificial runes, sacrificial spells, ritual steps, etc.
The "evil god's favored ones" obtained by casually performing sacrifices to communicate with the evil god are not only highly dangerous and of low utilization rate , but also often bring all kinds of outrageous side effects - such as the situation where the leader of the black-robed men lost control of his emotions for a moment and his reason was swallowed up by the "favored ones" in his body, and he was deformed on the spot. There are many such cases.
Believers who consume too quickly obviously cannot become reliable and effective anchors.
The ancient god who sliced up the part of his consciousness that still retained sanity and projected it into the material plane obviously understood this as well.
In other words...even if Yang Qiu was very reluctant to accept this result, he had to admit the reality: the clone of the ancient god's consciousness body walking in the human world may have changed his appearance and was trying to - or had already - blended into the mainstream belief.
Take a "true god sect" from some unknown or already famous place in the Baron Continent or the outer continent. Maybe the real person is that ancient god...
This is really creepy just by thinking about it.
There are dozens of orthodox religious sects of all sizes still in existence on the continent of Nabarron.
There are righteous gods with great influence like the Lord of the Sun, and there are also righteous gods in seclusion like the Goddess of Prosperity, whose entire parish is only one duchy.
The situation in the outer continent is more confusing. Due to geographical isolation and the impact of war, no one can tell exactly how many gods with strange priesthoods the orcs believe in. Given the spellcasters' love of traveling, there are already dozens of gods from the outer continent recorded in the Ivory Tower.
It is not unbelievable that a fragment of the ancient god, who has been active in the human world for who knows how long, has mixed in.
“It’s not easy.”
Yang Qiu released a pure black magic flame to burn the piles of bones deep in the cave, and let out an embarrassed sigh.
The clone of the ancient god's consciousness hopes to reshape his godhood, which has no conflict of interest with Yang Qiu - he will not compete with the righteous sect for believers. As a mere mortal, there is no need to make things difficult for an untouchable creature who has infiltrated the righteous team.
The question is, will they let him go?
He devoured one of the ancient god's tentacles in reverse, not only secretly taking a trace of his evil energy, but also being able to identify his unique aura; if others didn't notice, it would be fine, but if they did, they would definitely kill him, the guy who was aware of "Him"'s existence...
But Yang Qiu couldn't just hide away and reduce the possibility of being exposed.
The expansion of the undead regime is inevitable. He is already ready to touch the Storm Church's tiger's butt. The preparations are all on the agenda. There is no reason to stop at this time!
He had sworn an oath to the remaining spirit of Mrs. Marion, and as a man he should keep his word.
After completely destroying all traces of evil god worship in the cave, Yang Qiu began to create... the mission scene.
The players have already discovered this place, so there's no way to fool those guys without giving an explanation. As a qualified and principled game producer, Yang Qiu has to clean up his mess.
After a little manipulation and disguising the cave as a mission scene, Yang Qiu clapped his hands and left the cave.
At this time, it was already early morning in the other world.
A new group of players were assigned to perform "protection missions" in the canyon, and those players who didn't get to stare at the civilians all ran out into the wild - there were many wild beasts in the mountains, and quite a few herbs that could be collected, which was perfect for players to practice their life skills.
In the open space in the northern part of the canyon, some players were cooking food for the "civilian NPCs" - this was a task that Yang Qiu had intentionally arranged for the Undead Chamber of Commerce to assign to players after the players realized that they had to prepare food for the civilians, in order to use a small amount of Chamber of Commerce reputation to motivate these players to more attentively act as tools to take care of the civilians.
Standing on the stone square and watching for a while, the players who, despite language barriers and a bit rough methods, were able to get along harmoniously with the indigenous people, made Yang Qiu feel much better.
Our fellow humans on Earth are still very powerful. Even this bunch of idiots can play a significant role if we give them reasonable rewards and incentives, and correctly guide and motivate them.
"Well...if an enemy comes, we will fight him; if a flood comes, we will block it with earth. Let's just take it one step at a time."
Avoiding the players' sight and summoning a bone griffin, Yang Qiu flew into the direction of the Barcelo River.
The players marched from the land, and the large indigenous army marched from the Baselo River. Compared with the players who would not be in any danger no matter how they died, the large indigenous army needed Yang Qiu to keep a close eye on them at all times.
Captain Mace struggled for half the night but still couldn't decide whether to tell others that he discovered Lord Yang left in the middle of the night.
After daybreak, Captain Mace went to the washroom to wash his face and wake himself up, then asked the crew when he could get off the ship.
Returning to his seat, Captain Mace was shocked to find that...across from him, Lord Yang was sitting there, flipping through a book leisurely.
"Good day, Captain."
Seeing his fellow passengers returning, Yang Qiu smiled and nodded slightly.
Captain Mace: “…”
Captain Mace: "Good day, Mr. Yang."
Four large ships with skulls sprayed on their hulls sailed into Lars, a port city in the south of Tachia Territory before dawn.
As the Lars City Port Guard was not notified in advance and permission to disembark was not obtained, the four large ships could only dock outside the port for the time being.
"What was the result of the negotiation between Stanford and the Lars Port Guard?" Yang Qiu calmly put down the book and naturally asked Captain Mays, whom he had just inquired about.
"Agent Stanford obtained permission to disembark and enter the port for negotiations half an hour ago, but has not sent back any news yet." Captain Mays said honestly.
"Oh? It seems that the Lars people don't welcome us very much." Yang Qiu smiled slightly.
Captain Mace: “…”
He really wanted to complain, "What do you think?", but reason made him hold back.
Four large ships, a large army of thousands of people, and a large group of fully armed militiamen in the team - the fact that this fleet can dock in the port is already because they belong to the same Rhine Kingdom!
Captain Mace was complaining in his heart when he heard Yang speak again: "Captain, don't you need to get off the ship to get some fresh air? I don't think the port guards of Lars City will have any misunderstandings about you, the captain of the night watch."
Captain Mays couldn't help but feel a little toothache...
After hesitating for a moment, the captain of the Night Watch said in a tangled tone: "You may not know... The situation in Tachia Territory is somewhat different from other places..."
Captain Mays was having a headache choosing the right words to explain, but the other party smiled and nodded, saying, "I see. I understand."
Captain Mace: “…”
——Didn’t I say anything yet?? What did you understand?!
However, Yang Qiu had no interest in continuing to talk to him and continued to flip through the book.
Yang Qiu really didn't need too much explanation from the Night Watch Captain. After discovering that the Territory of Tachia had concealed the fact of the rampant cult for a hundred years even better than the Territory of Adler had done in the past, Yang Qiu already understood that something might be wrong with the Gold Coin Church in the Territory of Tachia.
Regardless of whether the relations between the diocesan bishops of Adler, Innadri, and Odysseus were not very close, the clergy of the three places had contacts with each other.
The diocesan bishop of Moses Port in Odysseus has a bad relationship with the bishop of Innadri, Lee Gene, but when something happens, they will still send priests to Innadri.
The relationship between the diocesan bishop of Adler County and Bishop Lee Gene was not very good, but that did not prevent the night watchmen in the two places from exchanging letters.
Only the Territory of Tacia seemed to have formed its own internal system and rarely interacted with church personnel in other Rhine territories.
In order to avoid misjudgment, when Yang Qiu assigned the players a task to eradicate the cult's lair, he also arranged an Innadri operator through the Brand Matrix to visit Bishop Li Gene and confirm Yang Qiu's guess.
It is even more certain that Metz, the captain of the night watch under Adler, just stayed on the ship and waited for news instead of getting off the ship to contact the local night watch.
Captain Metz had no idea how much preparation Yang Qiu had done, so he could only stare blankly .
After having breakfast on the ship, Agent Stanford, who had gone off the ship to negotiate with the Lars City Port Guard, returned sweating profusely.
"Lars City only allows us to resupply at the port and refuses to allow us to disembark?"
Yang Qiu, who was invited to the captain's room, was not surprised to hear the news brought back by Stanford.
"Yes, Mr. Yang. The captain of the guard claimed that some tricky things have happened in Lars City recently and he does not have the energy to maintain order at the port. He does not want a large number of outsiders to disembark at the port, and hinted that we should leave as soon as possible after replenishing supplies." Agent Stanford said.
"Isn't this a coincidence?" Yang Qiu smiled immediately, "Our undead friends love to help others the most. Since Lars City has encountered an emergency that has left them no time to entertain guests, it is time for us to lend a helping hand."
Agent Stanford: "..."
Captain Mays, who came to listen to the news: "..."
"Stanford, please go back and tell the captain of the guard that our undead friends have just destroyed a cult stronghold in the southern mountainous area of Tachia and are wondering why there is such an evil cult in Tachia that openly deceives the people into sacrificing themselves." Yang Qiu said calmly, "If there are any unexplained suspicious points in the troubles encountered by Lars City, our undead friends will be happy to come and assist in the investigation."
